Dear friends, How is your Lent going? I am loving the changes to our Sunday liturgy . . . the Decalogue (subplot: the sung response was...

Dear Incarnation, Our vestry warden, Nancy Sung, likes to talk about Sunday "subplots," all those invisible storylines that are woven...

Blessing the Dust For Ash Wednesday All those days you felt like dust, like dirt, as if all you had to do was turn your face toward the...

Dear Incarnation, Lent begins a week from today on Ash Wednesday, February 22. The 40-day season of Lent is a time of preparation for...

Dear Incarnation, I've been reading the news out of Turkey and Syria with shock and sorrow. As of this morning, the death toll has...

Dear friends, Last week's letter was light and newsy. This week, I write with grief. I came into the week heavy-hearted over the death of...

Hey Incarnation! Thanks so much for the gift of time away, especially on a Sunday. It has been over a year since my last Sunday away, and...

Dear Incarnation, Thank you for Sunday's post-service birthday surprise! It's always felt meaningful to me to share a birthday with...

Hi all! What a beautiful Sunday! So delightful to welcome Micah to the family of God; to welcome Sarah, Patrick, Elena, Will, Karen,...

Dear Incarnation, Happy 2023! I loved worshiping together on New Year's Day — the caroling deep cuts, the 1600+ year-old homily, the...

Happy 4th day of Christmas! The 12-day season of Christmas runs from Christmas Day to Epiphany (Jan 6), when we remember the arrival of...

Dear Incarnation, Today is the winter solstice, the longest night of the year. I'm grateful for the way our Advent traditions help us...

Dear Incarnation, On Sunday, with fear and trembling, I'll finish our series on the Four Last Things by preaching on hell (listen again...

Dear Incarnation, This Sunday is the third Sunday in Advent, sometimes called Gaudete Sunday (Gaudete is Latin for "Rejoice"). The candle...

Advent is here! On Sunday, you might have recognized the strips of purple fabric hanging from the wreaths. Those are the same strips that...

Dear Incarnation, The locks on the church van were frozen shut on Sunday morning, and we could see our breath as we unloaded. Cold is...

Dear Incarnation, This Sunday is Christ the King, one of my favorite Sundays of the church year. It's an Incarnation tradition for the...

Dear Incarnation, The last few years of political upheaval have left us weary and uncertain, and we carried many of those uncertainties...

"Do not neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you through prophecy with the laying on of hands by the council of elders."...

On Sunday we continued our series in 1 Timothy, and I talked about how this letter is written for a church transitioning from a movement...